Comments on: J-term: In Five Wordshttp://sites.middlebury.edu/middmag/2011/01/10/j-term-in-five-words/
Thu, 30 Jul 2015 21:37:18 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.3By: Noah Grahamhttp://sites.middlebury.edu/middmag/2011/01/10/j-term-in-five-words/#comment-249
Sat, 02 Apr 2011 00:28:33 +0000http://sites.middlebury.edu/middmag/?p=3050#comment-249Michael–Isn’t the point of an article like this to explain what Winter Term is about to people who haven’t experienced it? Given your experience with Winter Term, wouldn’t you want to see it described in terms of the kinds of experiences you and your friends had, rather than as a time for laziness, drinking, sleeping in, and skiing?
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Tue, 01 Mar 2011 05:35:31 +0000http://sites.middlebury.edu/middmag/?p=3050#comment-238Professor Graham–I would be glad for a potential employer to see this article. To be honest, there isn’t a whole lot in the quotes above that would make sense to someone who is not familiar with J-Term and has not experienced it. If an interviewer with no previous knowledge of Middlebury stumbled upon this article, I am sure it would be a fantastic conversation piece with which to begin an interview. I would not want to work for an employer who would judge Middlebury as anything other than a fantastic institution on the basis of a short piece about a period of time each year that only accounts for one-ninth of each Middlebury student’s education.

If you are trying to sayView MoreJ-term does not contribute meaningfully to a Middlebury student’s education, I think you are missing what it is all about. There is no question I learned a great deal both about the subject matter of my classes as well as about myself during each of my four J-Terms at Middlebury. I can say, without hesitation, that the same is true for each of my friends. Sometimes it is necessary to give students extra time to be creative outside of the classroom and to pursue interests for which there is no letter grade given at some arbitrary checkpoint during the learning process.

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Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:06:04 +0000http://sites.middlebury.edu/middmag/?p=3050#comment-227@Rachel–thanks for the catch. We’ve corrected.
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Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:53:13 +0000http://sites.middlebury.edu/middmag/?p=3050#comment-226A question: Imagine you are a Middlebury senior (and, let’s say, not a science major) applying for a job. Your prospective employer goes to the Middlebury web site to learn more about the college education on your resume. How would you feel about this article being the first thing that he or she finds?
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Wed, 26 Jan 2011 03:15:51 +0000http://sites.middlebury.edu/middmag/?p=3050#comment-225Orgo, can you handle it?
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Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:29:55 +0000http://sites.middlebury.edu/middmag/?p=3050#comment-224Cool bit, but on the main website it says “we asked students to whittle their experiences down to five words or less.” Five words or FEWER. It may sound picky, but prospective students and their families are going to see this and Midd is better than a simple grammatical mistake on the front page.
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Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:18:20 +0000http://sites.middlebury.edu/middmag/?p=3050#comment-223This former faculty member hates it and always has.
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Fri, 14 Jan 2011 21:12:27 +0000http://sites.middlebury.edu/middmag/?p=3050#comment-221This faculty member loves it.
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